I cut their faces off then I ripped out their

[MyNameGoesHere]

gills and scooped the guts out. A little light flour and into the pan with clarified butter. Has there ever been a food better than Chesapeake Blue soft shells? I cannot think of one.

[HERVEPA]

1. Lovely. Way to go. Disrespect the sentient beings providing you nourishment.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. No disrespect intended. But you? I think so.

And BTW that crab was so freaking good your idiotic reply just made it tastier.

[HERVEPA]

4. "I cut their faces off then I ripped out their gills"

Certainly not disrespectful!

[MyNameGoesHere]

5. Nope that is the steps required to prep them

I find it disgusting so I posted my steps. Sorry if you buy your grub from some prepackaged vendor, but I do not. Sometimes it's a messy and disgusting process. I thought my fellow Chesapeake Bayer's would understand it. So I am guessing you don't know what a crab is? I will give you a hint, they aren't as big as a large dog and they don't come from Alaska.

[HERVEPA]

6. I know what a crab is.

What difference does their size make?
I don't eat animals (not meant as an anti-animal-eater statement, just a response to your "prepackaged" comment).
And you clearly posted your method in words meant to grab attention.

[MyNameGoesHere]

12. Pray tell what do you eat that

does no harm? Come on now I know you can do it. Normally people that do not like to gather, fish or hunt for there food are unawares that they allow someone else do their massacring for them. So unless your eating some kind of inorganic substance I would love to know how you avoid the dirty work of murdering organic life?

[HERVEPA]

16. Organic vs. Sentient.

Also, you meant "unaware", not "unawares". They have different meanings.

Wouldn't normally correct usage, but referring to my earlier reply as "idiotic" gives me license, I believe.

[MyNameGoesHere]

18. You did not answer the question

but thanks for the grammar help, that's always a sign of things to come. So tell me how you achieve your 0 impact on life? I am awaiting your logical answer.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. If you find it so disgusting, why do you do it?

Maybe you should buy them prepackaged from a vendor.

More to the point, why didn't you mention that reason for the subject line in the OP?
Perhaps because your subject line was only meant to grab attention, which Hervepa gave it.

[Deep13]

8. They're underwater bugs. They're not sentient. nt

[HERVEPA]

10. Nice sentiment. For some reason I expect better from DU, even in the lounge.

How have you decided they are not sentient?

http://www.think-differently-about-sheep.com/Sentience%20in%20farm%20animals%20aquatic%20animals%20lobsters%20and%20crabs.htm

[Deep13]

13. Better? You're wrong. They're not sentient.

They simply don't have the nuerological equipment for self-awareness. Just because you have come to the baseless conclusion that we ought to have personal respect for food animals does not put you on a moral high horse. Frankly, I expect better than the kind of quasi-religious judgments you are directing at me. I don't agree with you and judging me by your irrational standards in this matter is a form of prejudice.

[HERVEPA]

17. Did you at least check the link?

[MyNameGoesHere]

19. Then do plants apply as Sentient?

Sentient
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissue

In science fiction, an alien, android, robot, hologram, or computer who is described as sentient is usually treated as a fully human character, with similar rights, qualities, and capabilities as any other character

Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism recognize nonhumans as sentient beings. In Jainism and Hinduism, this is closely related to the concept of ahimsa, nonviolence toward other beings. In Jainism, all matter is endowed with sentience; there are five degrees of sentience, from one to five. (Don't worry my Hindu beliefs allow me to eat crustaceans I just won't make it to enlightenment until i can learn to live off of air)

So tell me does your asparagus scream when you steam it?

[HERVEPA]

20. Standard bogus argument

"Don’t plants feel pain?"

Plants are alive and do respond to light and water, however, they don’t feel pain. The ability to feel pain requires a brain, a central nervous system, and pain receptors. All animals have these things. Plants do not. We all understand that there is a fundamental difference between cutting your lawn and searing off a hen’s beak and between slicing a tomato and slitting a cow’s throat. Animals are made of flesh, bones, blood, and fat, just as we are. They feel pain, just as we do. It is theorized that animals are able to feel pain so that they can use it for self-protection purposes. For example, if you touch something hot and feel pain, you will learn from the pain that you should not touch that item in the future. Since plants cannot move from place to place and do not need to learn to avoid certain things, this sensation would be superfluous. From a physiological standpoint, plants are completely different from animals. Unlike animals’ body parts, many perennial plants, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested over and over again without dying.

[AngryAmish]

11. Disrespect? I doubt they are reading DU

Or their relatives.

Wait, I may have to take that back. I know many of our fellow DUers are crabs, lobsters, etc. Not the best typers but can use a mouse pretty good.

[HERVEPA]

15. If someone defaced a tombstone of someone with no living relatives,

or dug up and mutilated the corpse, would you not consider that disrespectful?

I'm not equating a human with a crab, though I believe all sentient beings deserve respect, just pointing out that disrespect can occur without an obvious recipient of that disrespect. Society in general can be the recipient of the disrespect.

[SoxFan]

24. What if you ate the corpse

but prepared it in a sophisticated manner? I'm thinking something with a light vinegarette dressing, and a nice shiraz.

[hobbit709]

2. fried soft shell crab with Hollandaise and a crusty baguette. Yummy!

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. Did you take great pleasure in doing that?

[Chan790]

14. Pleasure.

I know that sociopathy gets me all hot and bothered. Wooooah! I'm burnin' up all up in heah!

[KG]

21. best with a cold schlitz beer!

[rug]

22. Predator meets The Food Network.

[Bertha Venation]

23. Jesus fucking christ.

[SoxFan]

25. Now that you mention it...

Doesn't the who issue of transubstantiation come into play in this discussion?

[Bertha Venation]

26. I don't know . . . after I read the OP and burst into tears

I made my post and read no more.

Sorry if this reply to me is clever and I missed it, SoxFan.

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. Someone in a "doorbell-ringing missionary treatment" thread posted...

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(I think) about a friend's husband who answered
the door naked while gnawing on a chicken leg.
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He told the two JW's that it was "Jesus meat". Of
course, he probably woulda said, "Transubstantiation"
if his piehole hadn'ta been fulla "Jesus meat" (which,
surprisingly -- does NOT taste just like chicken, but
just like softshell crab).
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Will the circle... be unbroken... by-and-by, Lord --
by-and-by?
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Not being Cat'lic... the humor was probably wasted on
them anyhow.
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[SoxFan]

30. Catholic humor is a touchy thing

I got raked over the coals on another board for using the term "mackerel snapper". Another poster (who is Jewish) said the term was offensive. Keep in mind that I am a Catholic, went to a Catholic high school, served ass a eucharistic minister, and had a seminarian as one of the groomsmen in my wedding.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Nice.

:eyes:

[mike_c]

29. yeah well, I'm about to sear some pig muscles, ripped from their shoulders...

...girded with breadcrumbs and laid lovingly in a red hot frying pan. SQUEWEEEEEE scream their little cells! Help us! Help us!

Then I will eat them, and smile with pleasure.

With rice and salad. And pan gravy.

I am an unrepentant carnivore, too.

[LaurenG]

31. cannibals of animals

can't and won't...

[Chubb Rock]

32. I tore out their lips and assholes

and covered the hot dogs in chili sauce...mmmm...I'm going to the grocery store for some dogs.